Building Serverless Mobile App With Azure Functions Using Xamarin.Forms

Azure Functions is a solution for easily running small pieces of code in the cloud. We can create, execute, and test our custom logic function without creating a VM or web application and also without needing to install any software or infrastructure to run the function. In this article, we'll learn how to implement Azure Functions and directly call through HTTP from Xamarin.Forms application.

Create Azure Functions

I have explained about different ways to create basic Azure Functions in my previous article. You can refer to any of the below articles for creating new Azure Functions.

We have already created Get Azure Functions, before writing C# code, copy functions URL of Azure portal and write the HTTP get client method as per below. The HTTP Client will automatically be included in the latest .NET Framework.